Robert W. Richardson and an unidentified man pose with Utley Valley & Stewart Railroad locomotive #1 on a spur in Utley (Athens County), Ohio. Robert Richardson stands beside the locomotive, he wears overalls and a shirt and tie. The unidentified...

Robert Richardson's parents, Mr. and Mrs. R.H. Richardson pose in front of the Royal Gorge in Fremont County, Colorado. Shows the Royal Gorge suspension bridge and steep granite walls of the chasm. Mrs. Richardson wears a long coat with brocade or...

Robert Richardson puts a letter in a mail box on a Colorado & Southern Railway narrow gauge post office car parked in a rail yard at the New York World's Fair in Flushing Meadow, New York City, New York. Lettering on the railroad car reads:...

Robert W. Richardson and a bus driver pose in front of a Rocky Mountain Parks Transportation Company tour bus and Denver and Rio Grande Western Railroad locomotive (2-8-0) #346, at the Narrow Gauge Museum in Alamosa (Alamosa County), Colorado....

Denver and Rio Grande Western Railroad locomotive (2-8-0) #346, and caboose 0500 are on display at the Narrow Gauge Museum in Alamosa (Alamosa County), Colorado. The tender is decorated with a garland and painted sign that reads: "Merry Christmas...

Denver & Rio Grande Western Railroad Company train #2, "The Scenic Limited," stops in Royal Gorge (Fremont County), Colorado. Photographer Robert W. Richardson stands on the step of the observation car "Eagle Canon." The suspension bridge is in the...

A float from the Narrow Gauge Museum, a caboose body mounted on a truck, and marching bands move down a street during a parade to commemorate the 75th anniversary of Alamosa's founding in Alamosa (Alamosa County), Colorado. Shows two brass marching...

A truck with letters that read: "Narrow Gauge Motel, Alamosa, Colorado" is parked in the grass beside a "Narrow Gauge Motel, Alamosa" road sign in the shape of a caboose, along US 285, north of Antonito in probably Conejos County, Colorado. Shows a...

Robert W. Richardson, retired executive director of the Colorado Railroad Museum, and Agostino D. Mastrogiuseppe, special collections librarian and curator of photographs, Denver Public Library Western History and Genealogy Department, wait for the...

North of Durango, La Plata County, Colorado, Agostino D. Mastrogiuseppe, special collections librarian and curator of photographs, Western History and Genealogy Department, Denver Public Library, holds his 35mm camera. He wears a pony tail,...

View of Frankfort and Cincinnati Railroad locomotive number "14" with a tender and freight car at a switch near a railroad grade crossing in Georgetown (Scott County), Kentucky. Two young men hang from the freight car. A coal car, tanker car,...

Waco, Beaumont, Trinity & Sabine Railway locomotives #273 and #277 are in the enginehouse in Trinity (Trinity County), Texas. Shows a passenger car and tall grass along the tracks in the railroad yard.

View of Denver and Rio Grande Western Railroad locomotive #490 (2-8-2) and caboose #0586 with a freight train, on an iron trestle over Wolf Creek, near Lobato in Rio Arriba County, New Mexico. Shows tank cars, and canvas covered cars for...

Denver and Rio Grande Western Railroad narrow gauge locomotive 478 (2-8-2) hauls freight and tank cars near Coxo (Conejos County), Colorado. Shows the engineer in the cab and grass covered hillsides near the tracks. Windy Point is in the distance.

View of a Baltimore & Ohio passenger train in the railroad yards in Cleveland, Ohio. Shows automobiles parked near the railroad tracks, a line of cabooses, freight cars, railroad buildings, and factories with stacks belching smoke.

A Baltimore and Ohio locomotive with tanker cars is stopped at the railroad depot in Bridgeport (Belmont County), Ohio. Signs on the station reads: "Bridgeport" and "Baltimore & Ohio Railroad Freight & Passenger Station." A truck is parked beside...

Colorado & Southern steam locomotive #638 with a caboose, is stopped at the railroad depot in Leadville (Lake County), Colorado. Snow covered log and frame houses and sheds are near the tracks. Mount Elbert and Mount Massive are in the distance.

View of the Colorado and Southern railroad depot in Golden (Jefferson County), Colorado. Shows a brick building with false ocular windows, a pitched roof and boarded up windows and doors. Cars are parked near the building. Mountains are in the...

New York Central Railroad Company locomotive #4751 is on a coaling track in Gallipolis (Gallia County), Ohio. Railroad workers and other men are near frame buildings at the coaling station. Shows a railroad turntable, and a water pipe.

Smoke rises from San Luis Valley Southern Railway locomotive #105 at the depot in San Acacio (Costilla County), Colorado. The two-story stucco depot has a hip roof and a rectangular bay window. A freight car is on tracks beside the locomotive.

Texas and New Orleans Railroad locomotive #412 and a freight car are on a railroad grade crossing near a signal tower in Navasota (Grimes County), Texas. The crossing sign reads: "Railroad Crossing Look Out for the Cars."

The front doors are open on a Waco, Beaumont, Trinity & Sabine Railway motor car near Trinity in Trinity County, Texas. Lettering on the doors reads: "W.B.T & S. 1." A railroad worker in overalls stands in front of the motor car.

Passengers stand in line at the ticket office window, to purchase tickets for the Silverton train, at the Rio Grande Western Railroad depot in Durango (La Plata County), Colorado. Shows the two-story clapboard sided depot, and brick or stone...

Denver and Rio Grande Western Railroad (2-8-2) locomotives #490 and #494, with passenger and baggage cars on a Rocky Mountain Railroad Club excursion, are above Windy Point near Cumbres in Conejos County, Colorado. Snow is on ground and the San...

Cadiz Railroad steam locomotive # 8, with a consist of a boxcar and a passenger car, pulls away from the wood frame depot in Cadiz (Trigg County), Kentucky. Lumber is stacked near the depot and houses and a church are in the distance.

Colorado & Southern steam locomotive is stopped near the railroad depot in Broomfield (Broomfield County), Colorado. The train has boxcars. The brick building has a hip roof with dormers and chimneys. A sign on the building reads: "Broomfield." A...

View of a Texas and New Orleans Railroad, Gonzales to Harwood, mixed train and locomotive #220 in Harwood (Gonzales County), Texas. The locomotive has lettering that reads: "Southern Pacific Lines." The train is made up of a tanker car, combine...

Smoke rises from Wheeling & Lake Erie Railway locomotive #2303 in Mogadore (Summit County), Ohio. The consist includes a baggage and passenger cars. Shows a frame and a brick building on a street near the tracks. A banner in a store window...

View of a new Studebaker truck inside a canvas covered narrow gauge flat car in the rail yard at Alamosa (Alamosa County), Colorado. Denver and Rio Grande Western freight cars are on both sides of the flat car. A sign reads "Stop, Men at Work."

Smoke rises from Denver and Rio Grande Western Railroad locomotive #489 (2-8-2) beside the Shavano water tank on Marshall Pass in Saguache County, Colorado. Shows a shack, utility poles and the Sawatch Range.

Distant view of the last Salida to Alamosa train on a descent on Poncha Pass in probably Saguache County, Colorado. Denver and Rio Grande Western Railroad locomotive #482 (2-8-2) hauls gondola cars. Sagebrush and snow are in the valley and trees...

A Denver and Rio Grande Western Railroad double header passenger train, the "San Juan," is pulled by narrow gauge locomotives 478 and 489 (2-8-2) near Azotea (Rio Arriba County), New Mexico. The ten car train is bound for a National Model Railroad...